RIOTING IN SICILY.
Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.
Rome, December 27. Persistent rioting is reported from Sicily, the outbreak being due to the pressure of local taxation. , Mobs are burning the public buildings, and the residences of the tax collectors; while an immense amount of damage is. being done in other directions.
Signor Crispi has appealed to the Municipal authorities on the island to see that the taxes are levied as equitably as possible, and he is sending troops to maintain order. In the riots in Sicily four persons were killed and many wounded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9394, 28 December 1893, Page 5
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